Similarly, the statute refers to “knuckles of any substance” that can be “put to the same use with the same or similar effect” as metallic knuckles; nunchaku, zoobow “or any similar weapon” configured with two sticks connected by rope, chain, or wire; and shuriken or “any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown.”

The exhibition includes 13 studies in which we see Motherwell grappling with the arrangement of the several symbols that he was eventually to incorporate in the mural: a Torah scroll, Jacob's ladder, the Ten Commandments and a menorah (candelabrum), along with starlike line configurations that supposedly represent diasporic movement.